In their suburban cottage the crown charges, the Krogers received secrets from the mystery man, usually on the first Saturday evening of each month, and spent much of the week-end getting the secrets off to Moscow, either on a powerful transmitter buried under the kitchen floor or as dots posted over period marks in used books.

The Turkish language and the Islamic religion were gradually introduced as a result of the Seljuk conquest, and this period marks the start of Anatolia's slow transition from predominantly Christian and Indo-European and Semitic-speaking, to predominantly Muslim and Turkish-speaking ( Although some ethnic groups such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Georgians retained Christianity and their native languages ).

The battle typically marks the starting of a period of increased military and political instability in the Roman Empire, although the symptoms of the crisis had already appeared in the preceding decades.

For some this marks the beginning of the " mature " Classical style, where the period of reaction against the complexity of the late Baroque began to be replaced with a period of integration of elements of both Baroque and Classical styles.

Diocletian's reign marks the end of the classical period of Roman law.

During the later years of the Roman Empire, the Germanic peoples of northern Europe grew in strength to rival the Empire itself, and repeated organized attacks led to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476, a date which traditionally marks the end of the classical period, and the start of the middle ages.

This marks the beginning of the neolithic period for Finland, although the subsistence was still based on hunting and fishing.

The late Vedic period ( 9th to 6th centuries BCE ) marks the beginning of the Upanisadic or Vedantic period.

The Ubaid period marks the Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic phase in Mesopotamia, which represents the earliest settlement on the alluvial plain in the south.

Following a change in vowel pronunciation that marks the transition of English from the medieval to the Renaissance period, the language of the Chancery and Caxton became Early Modern English ( the language of Shakespeare's day ) and with relatively moderate changes eventually developed into the English language of today.

Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the 10-day period of atonement leading up to Yom Kippur, during which Jews are commanded to search their souls and make amends for sins committed, intentionally or not, throughout the year.

According to the Torah, this is the first day of the seventh month of the calendar year, and marks the beginning of a ten day period leading up to Yom Kippur.

Shavuot marks the end of the counting of the Omer, the period between Passover and Shavuot.

It is possible that the Trojan Linear A scripts that were discovered by Heinrich Schliemann and one inscription from central Crete, as well as a few similar potters ' marks from Lahun, Egypt ( 12th dynasty ), come from an earlier period, ca.

In Japan, the same period marks the formation of the modern forms of judo, jujitsu, karate, and kendo ( among others ) based on revivals of old schools of Edo period martial arts which had been suppressed during the Meiji Restoration.

This period marks the end of significant raider activity both for plunder or conquest.

No new earl was appointed before the ensuing Norman Conquest of England, and as the Norman kings soon did away with the great earldoms of the late Anglo-Saxon period, 1066 marks the extinction of Wessex as a political unit.

** The Cominform Resolution marks the beginning of the Informbiro period in Yugoslavia and the Soviet / Yugoslav split.

By the end of the 5th century BC it stood out as a state which had defeated the Athenian Empire and had invaded the Persian provinces in Anatolia, a period which marks the Spartan Hegemony.

Usually the establishment of Kamakura Bakufu marks the beginning of Kamakura period.

The fate of this opera marks an epoch in the history of Italian art ; for with it the gentle suavity cultivated by the masters of the 18th century died out to make room for the dazzling brilliance of a later period.

It marks the beginning of the sacred period that leads to Easter.

During the sede vacante, the period between a pope's death and the election of his successor, the day-to-day governance of the Church as a whole is in the hands of the College of Cardinals.

That military respect for law began The Ten Years of Spring, a democratic period of free speech and open political activity, plans for national land reform, and the historical perception, by the intelligentsia, that much and great political progress could be made in realizing the civil governance of Guatemala.

After the assassination in 1398 of Biordo Michelotti, who had made himself lord of Perugia, the city became a pawn in the Italian Wars, passing to Gian Galeazzo Visconti ( 1400 ), to Pope Boniface IX ( 1403 ), and to Ladislaus of Naples ( 1408 – 14 ) before it settled into a period of sound governance under the Signoria of the condottiero Braccio da Montone ( 1416 – 24 ), who reached a concordance with the Papacy.

During this period greater emphasis was laid upon the civil service system of recruiting officials ; this was based upon degrees acquired through competitive examinations, in an effort to select the most capable individuals for governance.

This theory of governance developed in Geneva under John Calvin and was introduced to Scotland by John Knox after his period of exile in Geneva.

However, modern scholars tend to doubt this claim and view the governance of the church of Rome during this period as still more or less collective.

They were also referred to as ' criollos ', a word from the Spanish language meaning " mixed " and used in the post-French governance period to distinguish the two groups of New Orleans area and down river Creoles.

The Victorian era was a period of rapid growth, both in terms of population, governance, amenities and property.

During the period of Saka and uisun governance, Almaty became the early education center.

The city did not exist during the pre Hispanic period but was laid out by the Spanish as a center of evangelization and governance after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

The is a period of Japanese history that marks the governance by the Kamakura Shogunate, officially established in 1192 AD in Kamakura, by the first shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo.

During this period, he gained practical experience in local governance.

Monastic governance of cathedrals continued in England, Scotland and Wales throughout the medieval period ; whereas elsewhere in western Europe it was found only at Monreale in Sicily and Downpatrick in Ireland.

Despite the fact that various warlords gained control of the government in Beijing during the warlord era, this did not constitute a new era of control or governance, because other warlords did not acknowledge the transitory governments in this period and were a law unto themselves.

Throughout this period, the Monguor maintained a high degree of political autonomy and self governance under the local chiefdom system of Tusi.

With the outbreak of the Nanboku-chō War, the civil administration ( ritsuryo ) began to break down rapidly, and shugo lords, who had a minor role in provincial governance during the Kamakura period, emerged to usurp the civil governor's functions.

During the period of his governance, official data presented inflation as having decreased from 15 % to 3 %, public deficits diminished from 14 % to 3 %, GDP increasing at an annual average of 4 % and factual labor incomes having increased at a rate of 3 % per year.

The earliest extant works of Tamil literature date back to the period between 300 BCE and 200 CE and deal with love, war, governance, trade and bereavement.

For the current period of governance, the PCRM has outlined the following goals for the country:

Usa shrine had not only religious authority but also political influence to local governance, but their influence was reduced until the Sengoku period.

Several flags were used during the first period of Spanish settlement and governance in Florida, such as the standard of the Crown of Castile in Pensacola and the Cross of Burgundy flag in St. Augustine.

Stone edicts and carvings found in Uthiramerur have shown clues of local self governance during the Chola imperial period. The elections were held by a method called Kudavolai.

Philosophical reflection on the gods, on religion, and on the origins and governance of the Universe, flourished in the Hellenistic period among both Greek-and Latin-speaking thinkers.

The period before the urban district council was created Cudworth's governance passed through a number of changes introduced by the Government at Westminster but due to the increasing population.